From: shaheed <srhaque@iee.org>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v2
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 22:30:20 +0100
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On Thursday 15 May 2003 9:24 pm, Robert Love wrote:

> Oh, one other problem with doing it in the kernel via INIT_TASK:
>
> You end up affining any kernel threads, which you absolutely do not want
> to do _implicitly_. Maybe explicitly, but certainly not implicitly as a
> blind consequence.
>
> Doing it via init is really the way to go.

OK, that does make sense.

>Submit a patch to the init maintainer to have it bind itself on boot to
>a given command line value. Maybe I will do this if I find the time...

I will have a go myself too...

[srhaque@chiswick srhaque]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /sbin/init
SysVinit-2.84-2mdk

and rpmfind.net points to ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/software. 
I'll drop you a line if I make progress.

Thanks, Shaheed

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